Sanjay Singh: ‘There is a world of difference between Mamata and Nitish. Nitish bowed before BJP, Mamata is fighting it. Bengal results will benefit INDIA’

TheAam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh walked out of Tihar Jail Wednesday, a day after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the Delhi excise policy case. Reeling from the arrest of its senior leaders, including its supremo and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in the same case, the AAP has got a shot in the arm on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections by Sanjay Singh’s release. In an interview with The Indian Express, Singh spoke on a range of issues, including his party’s poll campaign, the INDIA bloc, the elevation of Kejriwal’s wife Sunita, and his nearly six-month-long incarceration. Excerpts:

AAP is contesting on 23 seats as part of the INDIA alliance. Our focus will be to ensure that all our workers make efforts with full dedication in areas where we are contesting. Where we are not contesting, our workers will help in the campaign of the INDIA bloc candidates.

There are 3-4 big issues right now. The first is the looming danger to democracy. Elected governments are being brought down and MLAs and ministers are being bought. Chief Ministers (of Opposition parties) are being jailed. This has to be explained to the people, and how there is an attempt to finish any Opposition.

The other big issues include inflation, farmers’ distress, unemployment, Agniveer scheme. We will bring these to the people. I believe Modi ji will lose the 2024 elections. So far, whenever they have spoken about winning, they have fallen. In West Bengal, they said they will get over 200 seats. What happened? In Mizoram, they said they will get 21 seats, they got 1. In Haryana, they said they will go past the 75 mark, they got 40… BJP’s slogan of crossing the 400 mark will fall flat.

People are troubled by price rise. Over 82 crore